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   RealName: John Dovey 4:920/1   
   Glad to see you, August!   
      
    AA> Hello John Dovey!   
    AA>    
    AA> ** On Sunday 11.07.21 - 04:34, John Dovey wrote to All:   
    AA>    
    JD>> Some of my all time favorite authors are ones published by   
    JD>> Baen. I?m personal friends with two of them. Larry is one,   
    JD>> but I?m really good mates with Tom Kratman. His wife is   
    JD>> Panamanian and she?s become good friends with my wife as   
    JD>> well   
    AA>    
    AA> I see a common thing with the authors [Kratman, Correia] you     
    AA> mention: military sci-fi / fantasy.  I wasn't particularly     
    AA> aware of that mix.   
    AA>    
    AA> Wrt Baen, Simon&Schuster seems to be their distributor. S&S is     
    AA> the slowest biz to work with. As a result, I've generally     
    AA> skipped checking their catalog.   And.. I see Kratman and     
    AA> Correia are with Baen. No wonder they never appeared on my     
    AA> radar.   
    AA>    
    AA> Star Trek novels (of which I am out of since 2018) are also a     
    AA> kind of shootem up military sci-fi ..and those too are     
    AA> distributed by S&S. I see a correlation here!  :D   
    AA> --   
    AA>   ../|ug   
      
   Definitely a correlation ;-)    
   Check out David Weber as well. The Honor Harrington series. Think Hornblower,   
   but female ? and in space ?   
      
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